So Don Imus is sacked. I have to admit I listened to him but little and cared less. Why, then, do I bother to write?
Just the other week Newt Gingrich lampooned Hispanics as speaking "the language of the Ghetto" - a comment that is profoundly worse than calling the Rutgers NCAA Women's Basketball team "nappy headed ho's."
Imus insulted a dozen black women. Gingrich insulted a whole race. Imus is, by definition (shock jock), supposed to offend. Gingrich is supposed to govern with wisdom and empathy. Imus is a disc jockey. Gingrich is one of the most powerful Republicans on the planet, a potential Presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House. Imus was sacked because he represents corporations of modest intelligence and integrity. Gingrich, as a Republican, is held to no standard and is expected to have no integrity. He did, after all, try to impeach Clinton for lying about his BJ, in the meantime he was cheating on his own wife.
I'm always amazed at how somebody you don't know, who is in many regards reckless and salacious on purpose, could hurt your feelings? How fucking sensitive must you be? How week is your self esteem? Why even dignify him with a face-sucking meeting at the Governor's House? What do you care?
I don't even want to go into the obvious racial overtones here. Blacks can rail against Whites in the most offensive language possible but when Whites say "you people"...watch out!
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